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Some years ago, but in this new life, I was in Kalimpong, India with a group of my students on pilgrimage and retreat in Nepal. I was in a shop and the shop owner wanted to show me a precious photo of the 8th Domo Geshe that his family kept on their altar. While I was waiting, seated at one side, an old Tibetan monk came into the shop but did not see me. I looked at him and was delighted to see that although we had not met in this life, nor in the life of my previous, I saw that the great 7th Domo Geshe, Ngawang Kalsang had blessed his previous. That blessing was so strong, it transcended the passing of his previous life! I explained this tonight to some students here and one said it must be like a microchip! I laughed; yes, like a spiritual microchip indeed! ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dreams are influential to our well being. We can pray to experience being with our teachers, the Buddha and Bodhisattvas, during dreams that might actually happen. In any case, whether Buddhist experiences come or not, our minds are gradually changed. We continue to be attracted to higher values such as wishing to be with enlightened beings.In the morning, we might feel a strong energy in the heart center due to our wish that made us dear to the enlightened ones, receiving their blessings! That strong and sweet energy is carried throughout the day, and for some, it lasts much longer. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche

The actions of the confused and deluded are often filled with deliberate malice causing myriad kinds of unhappiness and suffering in others. If we feel that pure and careful people deserve to become enlightened, then how much more important it is for bad people to become enlightened. Only then will they stop harming others. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Understanding comes at a price, we must give up our present position! Our earliest attempts to learn in school were gained by giving up innocence. For those on the spiritual path, the great transformation of enlightenment will awaken us to true reality. We must give up our attraction to suffering, gaining transcendent innocence. Then, we are ready to learn in a new way. This is the path of a bodhisattva. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Emptiness is nothing special. Some say it is a special nothing. Others say it is nothing at all. Still others declare that certain configurations of the moon and planets will result in special holidays that will be more auspicious to realize emptiness..... Hahahaha ... looking at it wrong... ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Social Buddhism, Cultural Buddhism, Personal Journey Buddhism, or Traditional Practitioner Buddhism... what type are you?In my opinion, social Buddhism is like pop culture, a bit of Buddhism incorporated here and there to keep up with friends who discuss psychology based ideas.

Cultural Buddhism - many who are raised Buddhist (usually from Eastern countries) have an innate confidence in Buddhism like inculcated family values others receive in early childhood. Eastern teachers often have sorrow that those who were not raised in Buddhist families have a disadvantage by having to mechanically add Buddhism to their value system and is notenergetically present.
On the other hand, just like those who complain that they do not get enough from their Christian roots, often the cultural Buddhist does not continue to evolve and does not delve into Buddhism as a personal path of awakening. Their practice remains immature, with a faith that is uncultivated.
Personal Journey Buddhism is a…

Ice will definitely turn to water, with the right conditions. Skill is using that natural process to the best advantage.Like that, the mental solidification producing the confusions called delusions and suffering will begin to melt in correct practice. We can become pleased with the feelings associated with inner change and the melting of ordinary mind instead of fearing cultivated change. The energy freed up by that process can be applied to new growth, bringing us closer to awakening or enlightenment! ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Do not become wrongly tamed by accepting this defective world as the final location of your development by honing useless worldly skills. Your true home is in perfection. Please do not halt your Great Journey by acquiescing to small minded thinking that will result in future suffering lives. That would be a terrible thing to do to someone whom you will never meet -- but will become! ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Rinpoche is a reincarnate Lama of the Geluk tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The Domo Geshe lineage includes Je Pabongka Rinpoche, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and the great Geshe Jampa Chombe. Rinpoche has been teaching for a number of years, and holds numerous retreats and spiritual trainings each year. The current Western incarnation of Domo Geshe Rinpoche arrived through rare and powerful tantric methods in order to transmit the authentic Dharma in the Western cultural context. This incarnation of Rinpoche is considered unusual in that she arose as an adult, a Westerner, and a woman.
Rinpoche is Founder and spiritual director of White Conch Dharma Center, with branches in USA and Germany. She also founded Grand Transitions Institute and Hospice. She is author of Mystery of Emptiness & Love and Red Lotus, Buddhist Wisdom. She travels much of the year to teach, and otherwise resides at her Hermitage in central Wisconsin where personal and group retreats are given.